Larry Elder, an attorney, syndicated columnist and national radio talk-show host provided some interesting counterpoints to the “Bush hates the poor” moonbats.
Some of the facts highlighted in Larry’s column:
- Education: Under No Child Left Behind, Bush increased federal spending on education — in inflation-adjusted dollars — from 2001 to 2005 by 38 percent.
- Job training: President Bush’s 2005 budget included 12.5 percent more funding than in 2001 for job training and employment assistance.
- Community service: The budget of the Corporation for National and Community Service — which includes funding for former President Bill Clinton’s pet project, AmeriCorps — grew by an inflation-adjusted 76 percent from 1995 to 2005.
- Health care: The federal share of Medicaid, the joint federal/state program, increased from $129 billion in 2001 to $176 billion in 2004, a 36 percent increase, averaging over 10 percent a year. Health research and regulation funding has gone from $42 billion in 2001 to $63 billion in 2004, a 48 percent increase.
- Faith-based initiatives: Under President Bush, 600 religious organizations received federal grants for the first time in 2003 and 2004, and faith-based groups received 8 percent of available social service grants in 2003, and 10 percent in 2004.
- SBA loans: The Small Business Administration provided twice as many loans in 2004 than it did in 2001, providing over $19 billion in loans and venture capital to almost 88,000 small businesses.
Each of the programs mentioned above that are supported by the Bush administration are directly aimed at providing advantage to economically challenged people in this country.
Read Larry Elder’s column “Bush hates poor? Only if numbers lie” in the Daily Breeze.
It’s a shame that the weak-minded minions of the left parrot these ideas that have no basis in truth. As we have stated before, there is a shortage of gray-matter in brains of those making these vain repetitions until they themselves believe the lies.